US Public Schools Train to Finger Mental Cases
The rationale for the new program together with the military-style training
carried out in the midst of schoolchildren is that the country cannot
risk having another tragedy such as the Sandy Hook School massacre or
one authorities say came close to transpiring in Decatur, Georgia.
Upon its introduction in 21 states and the District
of Columbia, “Typical or Troubled?” will instruct all school staff
“from custodians to counselors” to detect and report “warning signs”
that can include “persistent sadness, irritability, withdrawal, and even
a major change in eating habits.” In other words, the ups and downs
that tend to characterize the frequently awkward and uncertain
progression toward adulthood termed “adolescence” by the
Darwinian-inspired American psychologist G. Stanley Hall over a century
ago.[2]
Once a “troubled” candidate is identified their
parents are contacted and the child is assigned to a mental health
“specialist.” In other words, this alleged public health and safety
campaign constitutes what will likely become a major client referral
program for the psychopharmaceutical industry that has essentially
enlisted government employees to surveil unsuspecting subjects and
identify probable treatment candidates.
What is of at least equal concern is the deceptive
technique used to thrust this campaign on the public. The American
Psychiatric Foundation masquerades as an independent entity that
“retains control over all of its public education programs, content, and
materials.” Indeed, as APF Executive Director Paul Burke explains to
NBC, the philanthropic organization’s policy dictates “’that no
supporter or funder has any direct influence over the content of any APF
public education program.’”[3]
Yet a quick visit to the APF’s website reveals that
it is a front organization for the powerful American Psychiatric
Association—even operating from the same Arlington, Virginia office
suite. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the APF also has net assets in excess of
$52 million, according to the organization’s 2011 Form 990.
Such scrutiny would have been very simple (and an
ethical given) for NBC News to point out. But APA’s practitioner
membership alongside the pharmaceutical industry that so prevalently
advertises on major corporate media outlets like NBC stand to profit
handsomely from the anticipated revenue “Typical or Troubled?” and
similar campaigns will generate going forward.[4]
The APA has surely taken the observations of master
propagandist Edward Bernays to heart and practice. By establishing the
ostensibly innocuous APF to initiate presumably do-goodish programs as
“Typical or Troubled?” the psychopharmaceutical juggernaut further
ingratiates itself in the sordid national landscape of horrific school
shooting spectacles and accompanying police state terror.
While public employees are commissioned as mental
health surrogates, thereby offering up most of the nation’s children to
quasi-medical scrutiny and prospective forced drugging, genuinely
demonstrable public health menaces such as genetically modified foods in
the cafeteria, electropollution via “WiFi” pervading school campuses,
and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s many social engineering initiatives
are readily espoused and actively promoted. Such developments should
make ever clearer the fact that public education entails very little
that is truly “educational”, and much that should shame any
self-respecting nation.
Notes
[1] Erika Angulo, “To Prevent School Violence, Teachers Learn How to Spot Mental Illness,” NBC News, August 25, 2013.
[2] G. Stanley Hall, Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relation to Physiology, Anthropology, Sex, Crime, Religion, and Education. Originally published in 1904.
[3] Ibid.
[4] Janice Lloyd, “Antidepressant Use Skyrockets 400% in Past 20 Years,” USA Today, October 20, 2011.
Thanks to “JZ” for bringing the August 25 NBC news article to MHB readers’ attention.
See related post:
From Persuasion to Coercion: Psychopharma’s “Priesthood of the Mind”
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